Your pathetic human eyes can only see what’s right in front of them, and it’s not hard to fool people. Robots, on the other hand, are already learning how to see around corners. This will no doubt come in handy during the robot apocalypse when machines need to hunt down fleeing humans, but in the meantime, it could be a real boon to self-driving cars and other autonomous technology. Researchers have, in the past, used computational methods to . But professor Ioannis Gkioulekas from Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute says this is the first time anyone has been able to resolve millimeter and micrometer-scale shapes without line-of-sight.
Whoops. The Eurasian Economic Commission has accidentally leaked AMD’s entire upcoming Rome product stack. While we don’t know the CPUs clock speeds yet, the data revealed shows model numbers, core counts, and TDPs. If true, AMD plans to expand the total number of SKUs it offers. Currently, the company sells 14 different Epyc CPUs. There’s a single 200W SKU (Epyc 7371, 32C/64T, 3.1GHz base, 3.8GHz boost), and one 120W SKU (Epyc 7251, 8C/16T, 2.1GHz base, 2.9GHz boost). Most current Epyc CPUs have a TDP between 150-180W. With that in mind, here’s the . We’ve highlighted a few of the more interesting SKUs in bold.
Autonomous vehicles: they’re and they kill people. But they also hold the promise of safer transportation—and —in the relatively near future. To help these vehicles upgrade their intelligence from causing to preventing them, Nvidia created the DGX SuperPod, an AI-optimized supercomputer that can help design a better self-driving car. Nvidia made it very it wants to be amongst the leaders in artificial intelligence and decided to build a supercomputer to demonstrate that. It only took the company three weeks to build by connecting 96 supercomputers with . You can actually buy it, too, if the novelty of your sixth yacht has worn off and you have $435,000 burning a hole in your pocket.
The Atari 520ST was Atari’s first 16-bit salvo in the personal computer wars of the 1980s. A new book by ExtremeTech Editor-in-Chief Jamie Lendino shows the tremendous influence the ST had on both gaming and music production. The Atari ST, largely forgotten today, was an incredible computer. Hot on the heels of Apple’s 1984 Macintosh, the ST, released by the then-new Atari Corporation under Jack Tramiel, was the first personal computer to offer a bitmapped color graphical user interface. Less than a year later, the 1040ST model became the first computer to offer 1 megabyte of memory for less than $1,000.
Heading things off today are a couple of Overpowered gaming desktops. Although these systems may not be from a major brand or of the best quality, they offer remarkably high-end hardware at a price far below the cost of the individual components. Overpowered’s DTW2 desktop comes loaded with high-performance components at an unbelievable price. This desktop comes loaded with an Intel Core i7-8700 and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card, and it is marked down from $1,899.00 to $899.00 at Walmart. Discounted as much as it is, it would be impossible to build a system to match it without paying more.
Ford wants to own the police car business. Cops always want safe cars that go fast. But municipal and state governments also want police cars that don’t guzzle gasoline, so hybrids are a now big part of the picture. For every high-speed chase, there are dozens of hours sitting in parking lots watching traffic and writing reports, and for that, hybrids play an increasing role. Ford is focusing on police cars based on the 2020 Ford Explorer SUV, but it’s also selling Ford Fusion hybrids and F-150 pickups in police livery. Ford this spring has been running a coast-to-coast road show for public safety and government officials, as well as journalists looking for news, or free doughnuts.
There are fresh rumors that Intel might tap Samsung for support at 14nm, though there are also reasons to be dubious of them. If true, it suggests that Santa Clara will be stuck on 14nm for a significant period of time for at least some parts, recent discussions of Ice Lake notwithstanding. According to (via Google Translate), Intel and Samsung are in the final stages of negotiating for additional capacity. Intel is said to have chosen to work with Samsung over TSMC due to concerns about Huawei and AMD’s improved competitive performance. TSMC has said that it believes it can continue to manufacture chips for Huawei, and this has supposedly spooked Intel into preferring Samsung as a partner, due to the potential for further retaliatory trade decisions targeting companies that do business with Huawei.
Today, the PCI-SIG announced that it’s already begun work on PCI-Express 6.0. If you’ve followed recent news about PCIe 4.0 and 5.0, this may seem like absolute overkill. PCIe 4.0 isn’t quite in-market yet, PCIe 5.0 won’t arrive until 2020 at the earliest, and now the PCI-SIG wants to finish PCIe 6.0 by 2021. Given the typical 12-month time frame for adoption, that would put PCIe 6.0 in-market by 2022. That’s a significant rate of improvement compared with the relatively pokey speeds we’ve lived with for the past sixteen years. When I got started in computing, the now-venerable ISA bus offered 8.33MB/s of bandwidth.
Technology can and does make the world a better place, but some of the tools we use to make positive change can also be turned against us to promote falsehoods. Adobe hopes to help slow the spread of fake news with tools to . The company worked with UC Berkeley scientists to develop a neural network that can spot fake photos and work backward to restore their original appearance. Adobe already has some features in Photoshop to prevent people from using them in shady ways. For example, image recognition tools block the manipulation of bank notes. These files won’t even open.
